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For many years, China has been struggling to tackle high pollution levels that are crippling its major cities. Indeed, a recent study by researchers at Chinese Hong Kong University has found that air pollution in the country …

Like other countries, Thailand has incorporated the low-carbon economy model in policies, aiming for sustainable development and better public health.
The Finance Ministry has already introduced excise taxes on vehicles that vary with emission levels and …

One in three people in Hong Kong, and half of the city's young people, would emigrate if they had the chance, according to a recent public opinion survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
With overall ratings for quality of life showing a " …

Average summer temperatures in this city of 7.4 million people have risen swiftly over the past century, according to a study by researchers. — Reuters picHONG KONG, Dec 24 — William Yu is giving a tour of a Hong Kong apartment where each of the three …

Air pollution from cars and factories has been regulated in much of the world since the 1970s. When it comes to the smoke-belching ships that carry global trade, the rules have been a lot looser.
Big changes start next January, though, when long-debated …

The stories I hear time and again in New Zealand are all about remoteness, arrival, and desire. About how this land was separated from the super-continent of Gondwana some 80 million years ago. About how it evolved into a sort of fragile Eden populated by …

While the toll that breathing polluted air exacts on health and physical wellbeing is richly documented, lesser known is its impact on human intelligence. In a first-of-its-kind study, conducted with our colleague Xin Zhang of Beijing Normal University, we …

If there’s one thing you can do for the planet (and your health) this year, it’s giving up meat, or at least cutting down on meat drastically.
Meat production produces damaging greenhouse gases and is a culprit behind water pollution, deforestation and …

BANGKOK’S AIR quality has not reached a critical level yet, authorities said, though the daily average of PM2.5 levels in the city has remained above 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air during the last seven days.
Health Department director-general Dr …

By Bloomberg News | Bloomberg January 16 at 5:23 AM China is facing its most difficult economic environment in years. The world’s second-biggest economy is in a trade standoff with the biggest -- the U.S. -- and under pressure from President Xi Jinping’s “ …

Along with 78 other cities, China's capital, Beijing, was again blanketed in thick winter smog on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Air pollution warnings were issued across the north, northwest, and east of the country, forcing …

There is more to Hong Kong’s air pollution than meets the eye – or throat. How often have you heard that the smog actually comes from across the border? Or that cars are responsible for the toxic clouds that regularly envelope the city? Such tropes are …

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Parts of Asia are chocking under a thick layer of smog, leading at least one country to experiment in extreme forms of weather modification in an attempt to clear the toxic brown skies.
Thailand, South Korea, China, India and Hong Kong are all …

Thailand, South Korea, China, India and Hong Kong are all facing unhealthy and even hazardous levels of pollution as weather patterns, coal heating and emissions contribute to the annual crisis.
The concept involves injecting clouds with small amounts of …

Its weak 10.7% performance on property factors and modest banking scale dragged its final score.
Singapore came in at third place as the best finance location in Asia after scoring highly on socio-economic factors such as political stability, ease of doing …

…including some reflections by guest writer TravellingMitch
There was a time when Penang was the ‘Pearl of the Orient’, for some western travellers the only ‘orient’ they would know outside of Singapore and maybe Hong Kong.
It was the 1950s and 60s when …

If there’s one thing you can do for the planet (and your health) this year, it’s giving up meat, or at least cutting down on meat drastically.
Meat production produces damaging greenhouse gases and is a culprit behind water pollution, deforestation and …

India's cities are among the smoggiest and it is just starting to tackle the problem.
Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia.
In Bangkok, a combination of construction dust, auto exhaust and other …

Researchers from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology credited with important translational science and early discovery work
Significant opportunity to replicate collaborative model to develop pipeline of extracellular tRNA synthetase …

Dublin, Jan. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Research Report on Scrap Metal Import in China, 2019-2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
Since China joined the WTO, demand for metallic materials in China has been …

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